2019 Jul 10
The Substance of Soil
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Soil is the basis of survival. Without soil, humans and most other living beings could not exist. Conor Guidarelli, who has dug deep into the soils of the Arnold Arboretum will present an overview of soil, from its formation and components to its properties. He will discuss ways to analyze soil quality and health to determine whether or not amendments are needed based on the soil outcome or use desired.
Participants are encouraged to bring a pint glass jar with about a cup of soil in it to class.
Cost: $20 for members; $30 for nonmembers.
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2019 Jul 05
Film Series: The Complete Howard Hawks
Fri Jul 5 (All day) to Mon Jul 29 (All day)
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
The Harvard Film Archive presents films Friday through Monday nights year-round. Open to the public, all screenings are held in the Archive's 200-seat theater featuring state-of-the-art film and digital projection located in the historic Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
Throughout July, The Harvard Film Archive will present screenings of director Howard Hawks' notable films. 
Month of July:
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2019 Jun 27
Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
6:30pm to 7:45pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Once, farmers knew how to prune trees in a way that, instead of destroying them, led to robust and sustained growth – of the trees and of the communities that utilized them. 
Rediscover this lost art that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia in this talk with arborist William Bryant Logan. William offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.
Cost: Free for members; $5 for nonmembers.
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2019 Jun 26
Harvard Art Museums: Cambridge Open Archives
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, Art Study Center, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit a number of unique archives and collecting agencies in Cambridge. In the Art Study Center, select archival photographs, correspondence, and objects documenting the history of the museums’ teaching mission and its wider impact in the United States will be on display for close examination. Archives staff will be on hand to share the stories behind the materials.
Cost: Free with museums admission (note that admission is always free...
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2019 Jun 25
The Art of Botanical Prose
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
All writers must contend with translation. A poet translates the movement of a dancing figure into a brief couplet, and an essayist translates the noise and commotion of the city where she lives into a single paragraph. The three-dimensional world filters into text, and when done especially well—the realm of literature and art—readers often forget that translation has even occurred.
In this talk, Jonathan Damery, the associate editor for Arnoldia, will provide a readerly tour through horticultural and botanical reference books, encouraging readers to see the artistic endeavor...
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2019 Jun 22
Film Screening: Sennan Asbestos Disaster
5:00pm
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Film Archive for a film screening of Sennan Asbestos Disaster (Nippon Asbest Village).
Director Kazuo Hara’s latest film is a slow-building and devastating epic exposé of the “silent time bomb” of widespread asbestos contamination discovered in the Sennan City area of Osaka in 2005. Made over a full decade working closely with an activist group racing against the clock to trace the devastating roots of the epidemic in the area’s traditional hub of asbestos production and connect with elderly survivors to build their case against the state, Sennan...
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2019 Jun 21
Film Screening: A Dedicated Life
7:00pm
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Film Archive for a film screening of "A Dedicated Life (Zenshin shosetsuka)." 
Director Kazuo Hara’s rarely screened fourth film is an extended intimate portrait of celebrated and outspoken novelist Mitsuharu Inoue, a project that took a radical new direction when the writer’s recently diagnosed cancer began to spread throughout his body. Responding to the urgent sense of time running out, Hara filmed extended sessions of Inoue’s writing workshops, lectures and visits to the doctor, while also interviewing the many women in the author’s life....
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2019 Jun 21
In the Groves: A Summer Solstice Journey
Repeats every week every Saturday until Sat Jun 22 2019 .
6:30pm to 8:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building and Arboretum Landscape, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Join us for an enchanting evening of Tree Myths, Songs and Summer Solstice Legends. Attendees will hear tales of the human connection with trees and the deep meaning we have assigned to them through the ages. This unique performance, designed specifically for the Arnold Arboretum, travels through the Arboretum with story and music. Each story is told under a different tree or among a unique collection of Arboretum plants, culminating with the haunting Czech legend “The Wild Woman of the Birch Grove” told amid the birches at sunset. Appropriate for adults and for children twelve years and...
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2019 Jun 20
Deciduous Tree Identification
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Starting in the classroom and then moving outdoors to see live specimens, Laura Mele will introduce identification methods for deciduous trees commonly found in New England. Bring a notebook, hand lens if you have one, and plan for indoor and outdoor learning.
Cost: $20 for members; $30 for nonmembers.
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2019 Jun 15
Visiting Artist Workshop: Miranda Thomas
Repeats every day until Sun Jun 16 2019 .
10:00am to 4:00pm
10:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Hone your surface skills and eye for design with world renowned potter Miranda Shackleton Thomas. Thomas will teach participants how to use rhythms, spaces, dividing up shapes and symbolism to help build up patterns.
The first day of this workshop will involve Thomas demonstrating her use of slips, inlay, freehand drawing, carving, brushwork, building, and dissecting patterns. Emphasis will be placed on brush work and exercises will be given to become familiar with all types of brushes and the stokes produced on paper, and later in the day, progressing onto pots. The second...
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2019 Jun 12
Growing Woody Plants from Softwood Cuttings
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Dana Greenhouse, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Hydrangea and Cherry and Willow, oh my! Join Manager of Plant Production Tiffany Enzenbacher to learn how to propagate woody plants from summer cuttings. Students will collect and stick cuttings of several landscape plants. Cuttings will be rooted at the greenhouse to be retrieved later for transplanting into the registrant’s garden or potted up into small containers. Fee for all materials is included in the cost of the class. Students should bring their own pruners and dress for the weather.
Cost: $36 for members; $45 for nonmembers.
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2019 Jun 09
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra: Final Concert
3:00pm
Location: 
Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge
Don't miss the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra's final concert of the season on Sunday, June 9. The program includes pieces such as "Overture to La gazza ladra," "Pelleas und Melisande," and more. 
The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' (BYSO) mission is to encourage artistic excellence in a nurturing environment by providing the highest quality orchestral training and performance opportunities to qualified musicians, grades K-12, while making its programs accessible to underrepresented youth through financial aid and outreach.
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2019 Jun 08
Moon Medley
3:00pm to 4:10pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
In collaboration with Houghton Library’s celebration of the moon landing’s 50th anniversary, the Harvard Film Archive presents films about humans’ exploration of that final frontier. This program features "A Trip to the Moon" with live musical accompaniment, "A Grand Day Out," "One Small Step," and more family-friendly short films!
Cost: $5 Weekend Matinee Admission or free with Cambridge Public Library Card.
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2019 Jun 06
Visiting Artist Workshop: Tomoo Hamada
10:00am to 2:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join Japanese Master Potter Tomoo Hamada, second son of Shinsaku Hamada and grandson of Shoji Hamada, for a half-day demonstration of his work. Although he uses traditional methods, his work is distinctively different from that of his father and grandfather. His more complex shapes are designs are highly regarded worldwide. Hamada has exhibited, lectured and given workshops internationally and was integral in helping the pottery community of Mashiko rebuild from the devastating Tohoku earthquake of 2011. Hamada’s work will be featured at Pucker Gallery beginning Friday, June 7th.
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2019 May 22
Ethnobotany at Harvard
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Historically, plants have provided humans with most of our drugs, fibers, food, dyes, perfumes, building materials, and even musical instruments. But how has this diverse and fascinating field been studied and what has been learned? In fact, for over 100 years, Harvard has played a pivotal role in the study of human-plant interactions, leading to the creation of the field of ethnobotany.
In this interactive lecture we will explore the science and history of some of the most important Harvard botanists and explorers through their unique specimens—now housed in the Harvard...
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2019 May 18
Exploring Zapotec Wool-Dyeing Techniques
10:00am to 3:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
In this one-day workshop, master dyer and textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez will discuss the history and uses of cochineal dye from the perspective of the Zapotecs from Oaxaca, Mexico, who have used the pigment since pre-Columbian times. Mr. Gutiérrez will demonstrate how to prepare cochineal dye and will guide workshop participants in dyeing their individual wool scarves with both cochineal and pericón, a wild marigold indigenous to Mexico, used to obtain a beautiful bright yellow dye.
This is an all-levels workshop; no previous experience is required. All supplies for...
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2019 May 14
Lilac Therapy Walk
Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu May 16 2019 .
9:00am to 11:00am
9:00am to 11:00am
Location: 
Map Table by the Ponds, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Every May, visitors flock to the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain to breathe in the fragrant lilac collection and witness the array of color. This flower has a history of medicinal use and if you have ever spent time inhaling this sweet fragrance you may have noticed a sense of calm and relaxation.
May can be a time of unwinding as we transition into a new season under a warmer and brighter sun. Whether you've been visiting the lilac collection for years or have yet to experience them, this is an invitation to unplug, de-stress, and recharge on a guided lilac therapy walk....
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2019 May 05
The Covenant of Love: The Poetry, Music and Spirituality of South Asian Muslim Cultures
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge
Harvard Professor Ali Asani ’77; Pakistani pop star and author Ali Sethi ’06; and Grammy-winning producer Noah Georgeson will share the poetic consciousness of legendary South Asian mystic poets through music and conversation. Central to the performance are the transformative powers of love, the primordial link that connects the divine to all of creation.
Join these thought leaders and artists as they invite audiences to understand the human and the divine through the all-encompassing lens of love.
Cost: Free tickets will be available...
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2019 May 04
Landscape Plant Selection, Planting, and Establishment
1:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Ensuring the long-term health of your landscape starts with healthy plants from the nursery, proper site selection and preparation, and sound planting and establishment. Andrew Gapinski will discuss professional standards and techniques, along with common issues and solutions for both balled-and-burlapped and containerized specimens. He will focus on landscape trees, shrubs, and perennials—ornamental annuals and vegetables will not be covered in this offering. Class will start indoors and then move outdoors to the Dana Greenhouse Nursery.
Cost: $30 members, $...
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2019 Apr 25
Around the World in 80 Trees
7:00pm to 8:15pm
Location: 
Weld Hill Building, Arnold Arboretum, Boston
Trees are one of humanity’s most constant and varied companions. From India’s sacred banyan to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration – not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup.
In Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable, to the downright ridiculous. Stops on the trip include the lime trees of Berlin’s Unter den Linden boulevard, which intoxicate amorous Germans and hungry bees...
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